GoblinX Applications

Liveremaster

The Liveremaster is a gtkdialog that allows you to rebuild/remaster a new GoblinX ISO for you. It has a preview prepared data folder of the modular system and several costumized options. You can add and remove modules, change the ISO name, change boot parameters, save root and extra settings and edit the ISO image before compress it.

Magic Center

The Magic Center brings to you an easy and fast way to configure and personalize your distro. Magic Center is a control center for many activities and fast access to settings, configurations and programs. It allows you to easily costumize the livecd or install edition.

The gtkConvert and gtkEmods

The gtkConvert is used to convert modules back to directory or into packages, also it can convert .rpm and .tgz packages into modules. The gtkEmods is used to rebuild modules if you wish to add or remove applications from them.

Media Manager

The Media Manager is a series of small applications and script running on your system to help you mount and access devices such as USB pendrives, DVDs and CDROMS. You can anytime disable this feature.

Other Interfaces

There are also several interfaces to help you. The gtkDSL to create and connect to DSL accounts, gtkHDInstall to install GoblinX to your harddisk, gtkSwaps to create and enable memory swap files, gtkSource to help during compilation of source package and more.

Linuxlive/GoblinX Features

AuFS

The AuFS filesystem is writable, it means you can modify all areas of the filesystem without any restrictions. Your changes to the read-only parts are transparently copied to the writable branch and stored. The system will autodetect whether it runs from a writable media or not. If a writable media is detect, all your changes will be automatically saved.

Persistent Changes

GoblinX, like Slax, does not limited you to just use a persistent home directory because the whole root filesystem is fully writable, it means you have a 'persistent changes' rather then 'persistent home' known from other live distributions.

Posixovl

Posixovl, as the name states, is used to overlay a filesystem by posix features. There are many filesystems which lack some posix functionality such as mode attributes, links or devices. It will be used if the filesystem where GoblinX boots from supports posix features. It means if you install GoblinX to your USB device formated with ext2, posixovl is not necessary, but if your USB is formated using some other VFAT, FAT32 or NTFS, it will be overlayed by posixovl. In few words: All changes are saved also in FAT32 usb devices.

Automatically Save Changes

If you boot it from USB drive or any other writable media, it will detect it. On the USB you’ll have directories ‘boot’ and ’goblinx’. During boot time will be created ’goblinx/changes’ directory and all changes will be saved there. No need for the configsave. No need for fixed-size loop filesystems. No need for partitioning your USB device to add special partition for changes.

Webmount

Webmount is a protocol prepared over the Slik from Slax to let you use module (lzm) from the web via httpfs while running LiveCD and include it into live directory structure on the fly.
The idea is from Manfred Mueller, Thomas Schoenhuetl and Tomas Matecijek, implemented if few modifications on GoblinX. Webmount lets you use any application on web compressed inside lzm module without download it. In few words: Use application directly from the server without download it.

Great Applications

The Gimp

The Gimp deserves a special note and a series of applauses therefore almost all the graphical work used by the GoblinX was made in this program. The Gimp is an excellent editor of images, excellent for graphical works and corrections in photos and images. It is an Open Source five stars program.

Firefox

One of the most famous navigators for personal computers, with excellent resources as popups’ blocker and much more. Firefox (formerly known as Phoenix and Firebird) is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component. It is similar to Galeon, K-Meleon, and Chimera, but it is written using the XUL user interface language and was designed to be cross-platform.

K3b

K3b is a CD and DVD burning application for Linux systems optimized for KDE. It provides a comfortable user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks, such as creating an audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD. While the experienced user can influence all steps of the burning process, the beginner may find comfort in the automatic settings and the reasonable defaults which allow a quick start.

MPlayer

MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4, DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It has many MMX/SSE(2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using XAnim's and RealPlayer's binary codec plugins, and Win32 codec DLLs. It has basic VCD/DVD playback functionality, including DVD subtitles, but supports many text-based subtitle formats too.

Konqueror

Konqueror is the file manager for the K Desktop Environment. It supports basic file management on local UNIX filesystems, from simple cut/copy and paste operations to advanced remote and local network file browsing. Konqueror is also an Open Source web browser with HTML 4.01 compliance, supporting Java applets, JavaScript, CSS 1, CSS 2.1, as well as Netscape plugins (for example, Flash or RealVideo plugins).

Pidgin

Pidgin is a GTK2-based instant messenger application. It supports multiple protocols via modules, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr. It has many common features found in other clients, as well as many unique features. Pidgin is not endorsed by or affiliated with AOL TimeWarner, Microsoft, or Yahoo.

Abiword

AbiWord is a cross-platform Open Source word processor. The goal is to make AbiWord full-featured, and remain lean.

Gnumeric

Gnumeric is a powerful and easy to use spreadsheet. Its goal is to provide a full featured spreadsheet and a smooth migration path for people and organizations currently using proprietary applications. It provides more sheet functions and greatly improved accuracy when compared to Microsoft's Excel.